Once a year my mate Jenx, the birding lawyer, and I go on a birdwatching weekend. This year we travelled down to Kent to focus on Rye Harbour and Dungeness. The weather was fine but the lack of wind resulted in lack of migrants. Still, had a great weekends birding with the following highlights :2 Slavonian grebes, yellow wagtails, marsh harriers, sedge warblers and cettis at Dungeness RSPB, common scoters, gannets and kittiwakes out at sea and a black redstart on the power station wall. Could hear a peregrine calling from the power station but a local birder told us not to point binoculars into the area as the authorities have been known to question birders on the back of anti-terrorism laws.
At Rye harbour there was a flock of golden plovers in summer plumage, avocets, grey plover, knot, dunlin, redshank, large numbers of sandwich terns and Mediterranean gulls, a single brent goose, sanderlings and ringed plovers (but no little ringed plovers). The appearance of a Peregrine caused a moments excitement over the tern pool.
At Rye harbour there was a flock of golden plovers in summer plumage, avocets, grey plover, knot, dunlin, redshank, large numbers of sandwich terns and Mediterranean gulls, a single brent goose, sanderlings and ringed plovers (but no little ringed plovers). The appearance of a Peregrine caused a moments excitement over the tern pool.
Dungeness Slavonian grebe
Redshank at Rye Harbour
Med gulls at Rye harbour
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